Open-vm-tools

[John Hein]

Josh Paetzel wrote at 11:16 -0500 on Oct 20, 2012:
 > I just installed PC-BSD 9.1-RC2 and virtualbox 4.1.22. I then
 > installed a vm running FreeBSD 9.1-RC2. I installed the
 > open-vm-tools from pkg.
 >
 > The kernel modules wouldn't load at boot. Turns out the rc.d script
 > runs a binary called vmware-checkvm, which is supposed to return
 > true if it's run in a vm. It does not and so the rc.d script bails
 > out before loading the kernel modules.
 >
 > Running vmware-checkvm gives "unknown version" as output.
 >
 > I haven't tried other hypervisors, but it seems that on this
 > platform at least it doesn't work properly.

vmware != virtualbox